Mexico City, Mexico — President Claudia Sheinbaum lead the distribution of 2.5 million free books from the “25 for 25” collection to young people in Latin America. The event was held Thursday in Mexico City that will see books distributed around Mexico and Latin America.
The collection consists of Latin American authors and will be distributed in Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, and Peru. The free books will be distributed to readers aged 15 to 30 from the 25 for the Twenty-Five collection of the Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE).
The goa is to make reading an act of transformation and a collective reflection on the great revolution of consciousness that the country is experiencing.
“We never would have imagined 39 years ago when we were fighting for the right to education, that we would be here defending the right of young people to always build a better country, to continue transforming Mexico, and to continue doing this, which is an act of collective reflection and transformation.
“The great revolution of consciousness that Mexico is experiencing at this historical moment,” she said at the event held in the Plaza de la Constitución in Mexico City.
Sheinbaum reflected on the importance of reading in the age of social media and invited young people to continue reading because what a book offers cannot be found on social media.
“Young Mexicans, let’s keep reading, building yourselves up as individuals and as a society,” she said.
She recalled that 39 years ago, on December 17, 1986, was the first time she spoke publicly at a rally, and therefore, he highlighted the symbolism that more than three decades later, today the Government of Mexico is giving away books throughout Latin America.
“I never imagined that 39 years later we would be giving away books to young people in Mexico and Latin America in an extraordinary effort to transform public life,” he added.
Paco Ignacio Taibo II, the General Director of the Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE), emphasized that the goal of this international effort is to ensure that everyone in Latin America has access to a book.
He also recognized the retired teachers who make the existence of 24,000 reading clubs in the country possible.
The list of titles and authors in the 25 for the Twenty-Fifth collection include Juan Gelman – “How to Shoot Against Death”; Nona Fernández – “Space Invaders”; Manuel Rojas – “The Glass of Milk and Other Stories”; Raúl Zurita – “Poems”; Piedad Bonnett – “The Privileges of Oblivion”; Gabriel García Márquez – “Operation Carlota”; Roberto Fernández Retamar – “Poems”; Miguel Donoso Pareja – “The Death of Tyrone Power”; Roque Dalton – “The Forbidden Stories of Tom Thumb”; Dante Liano – “Requiem for Teresa”; Alaíde Foppa – “Winds of Spring”; Miguel Ángel Asturias – “Weekend in Guatemala”; and Carlos Montemayor – “War in Paradise”.
In addition, Fabrizio Mejía Madrid – “Shots in the Dark”; Adela Fernández – “Sleepless Nights”; Guadalupe Dueñas – “Shoes for Life and Other Stories”; Amparo Dávila – “Concrete Music”; Sergio Ramírez – “The Fox”; José María Arguedas – “Quechua Song”; Blanca Varela – “Villain Song”; Eduardo Galeano – “The Brief Wondrous Life of Ernesto Guevara”; Mario Benedetti – “Geographies”; Luis Britto García – “Speak Word”; Osvaldo Bayer – “The Expropriating Anarchists”; Juan Carlos Onetti – “The Much-Feared Hell and Other Stories”; Andrés Caicedo – “The Crossed One”; and Eduardo Rosenzvaig – “Tomorrow Is Far Away.”
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